Cross-stay for belts.



No. 887,158. PATENTED MAY 12, 1908.

J. A. WANGSNESS. I CROSS ST'AY FOR BELTS.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 2, 1907.

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TINTT STATES PATENT OFFTCE.

JOHN A. WANGSNESS, OF LEAD, SOUTH DAKOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MAGNUS L. MAGNUSSON, OF LEAD, SOUTH DAKOTA.

GROSS-STAY FOR BELTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 2, 1907.

Patented May 12, 1908.

Serial No. 395,605.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. WANGSNESS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lead, in the county of Lawrence and State of South Dakota, have invented a new and use ful Cross-Stay for Belts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to cross stays for belts and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of its parts as hereinafter described.

The object of the invention is to provide a cross stay for belts made up of wire strands or cables, and is applied between the lays of the cable and is so formed as not to cut the pimples thereby preserving the integrity of the Belts of such construction are especially adapted to be used in mines or other places where heavy hauling is required, and the grciss stays do not reduce the flexibility of the Figure 1 is a plan view of a section of belt provided with the stays. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the stay detached. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a blank from which the stay is formed, and Fig. 5 is a cross sectional view of the stay on line 55 of Fig. 4.

As above intimated the cross stays are inserted between the lays of the cables or strands of which the belt is composed, that is to say, at points Where the said strands cross each other.

The stays consist of the strips 1 which are provided at their ends with the incisions or clasps 2. The material at the ends of the strips is bent in opposite directions and clenched about the edge strands of the belt.

The stay is thickest at its middle and gradually tapers toward its edges, having a substantially elliptical shape in cross section. By such configuration the stay does not present precipitous angles to the strands of the belt and consequently the belt is not subjected to wear by the insertion of the strips between the strands.

Heretofore, belts of the character shown have been provided with wire cross stays which bind their strands together, but in passing around pulleys or over drums the said wire would cut the strand and subject the same to unnecessary wear which would materially reduce the life or usefulness of the belt, and it is with a view of overcoming this objection that the present stay is devised, and its specific configuration as pointed out is of prime importance to accomplish the desired end.-

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters- Patent is 1-. In combination with the belt made up of strands a cross stay consisting of a strip inserted between the strands of the belt said strip being thickest at its middle and tapering toward its edges.

2. In combination with a belt made up of strands a cross stay having cloven ends the extremities of which are clenched about the edge strands of the belt said strip being thickest at its middle and tapering toward its edges.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiiXed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN A. WANGSNESS. Vitnesses:

Tnos. L. REDLON, M. L. MAGNUSSON. 

